Overview
- Regional prefect Marc Guillaume activated the plan on December 28, with multiple departmental prefectures following the same day across the Paris area.
- Measures include extended day‑centre hours, intensified street outreach, requisitioned spaces and hotel rooms, plus new places on top of 46,200 year‑round beds, 300 winter places and 200 added in recent days.
- Authorities said 60 unaccompanied women would be hosted from Monday at the regional prefecture site, and some day centers will convert into overnight halts.
- A man was found dead Sunday on boulevard Berthier in the 17th arrondissement, with police indicating he probably died of cold; an inquiry into the cause of death is underway and he was identified as a resident of a nearby Emmaüs facility.
- Paris officials and aid groups criticized the timing as late, and emergency physician Agnès Ricard‑Hibon urged anticipatory use of the plan as hypothermia can develop within hours, while prefectures pledged to adjust operations as the cold persists and reiterated the 115 hotline for people in distress.